The Hranko School District was established formally in January 1904 and a one-room school building was erected at SW23-20-24W in the Municipality of Rossburn. In 1927, with some 70 children of school age in the district, it was split into two districts, with the western part becoming Perch School District No. 2177. In 1937, local voters chose to move the school to NW11-20-24W (about N50.71235, W100.71762), about a mile south of this site. The school closed in 1954 and its remaining students went to Rossburn Consolidated School No. 2358. The building is no longer present at the site but a monument commemorates it at the original site.
The teachers of Hranko School were Fred Hawryluk (1907), Alex Klymkiw (1907-1909), Jaroslav Koltek (1909-1912), Harry Golets (1912-1913), Mike Wonitoway (1914), Anthony Martyniuk (1914), Henry Gushe (1915-1917), Nicholas Bilash (1917), George Hutzal (1918-1919), N. Podworney (1920), Basil Trakalo (1921), Joseph Dutchak (1922), Wasyl Yarmey (1923-1925), Andrew Danyleyko (1925-1927), Joseph Dutchak (1927-1928), Zelma Peden (1928), Lillian Cole (1928-1929, 1930), Cassie McKee (1929), R. Nitchuk (1930), Anna Neydli (1930-1931), Phyllis Klymkiw (1931-1934), Harry Pinuita (1934-1936), Nellie Dunits (1936-1940), Michael Mazier (1940-1941), Jennie Polischuk (1941-1943), Stella Hrysak (1943-1944), Ollie Kowal (1944-1945), Maurice Chomica (1945-1946, 1947-1948), Jeanette Derkach (1946-1947), Kay Rubeniuk (1948-1949), Helen Peterson (1949-1950), Mike Sitko (1950-1951), Mary Kotyk (1951-1952), and Jean Matiowsky (1952-1954).
The second Hranko School building (no date) by J. P. Sigvaldason
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 88.
Hranko School commemorative monument (June 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.72755, W100.71757
denoted by symbol on the map above
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
On the Sunny Slopes of the Riding Mountains, A History of Rossburn and District, Volume 1 by Rossburn History Club, 1984. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.R78 Ont]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 February 2021
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